MSC Napoli fuel removal goes smoothly
Salvage company SMIT has almost completed the removal of bunker fuels from the grounded container ship MSC NAPOLI, ashore off the English Devon coast.
MSC NAPOLI went aground after being damaged during a storm in the English Channel. The ship was en route to South Africa as part of MSC’s Northern Continent (Europe) South Africa weekly service.
On Friday last week SMIT announced that “Pumping now concentrates on Tank No. 6 starboard, the last of the ship’s four main fuel tanks. By 08.00 hrs today, 3,212 tonnes of fuel had been transferred from the ship to the tanker Forth Fisher. This represents over 80 percent of the total contents of the fuel tanks (3,600 tonnes) with completion of pumping from tank no. 6 starboard during the weekend, the remaining fuel in the engine room service and settling tanks will be removed (total amount of around 400 tonnes).”
At the same time 128 containers had also been removed from the ship by Friday afternoon, having been discharged by the crane barge BIGFOOT 1 onto the shuttle vessel BOA BARGE 21, after which the boxes were taken to Portland.
It is estimated that the clearance of the ship’s deck containers will take up to four weeks.
MSC NAPOLI went aground after being damaged during a storm in the English Channel. The ship was en route to South Africa as part of MSC’s Northern Continent (Europe) South Africa weekly service.
On Friday last week SMIT announced that “Pumping now concentrates on Tank No. 6 starboard, the last of the ship’s four main fuel tanks. By 08.00 hrs today, 3,212 tonnes of fuel had been transferred from the ship to the tanker Forth Fisher. This represents over 80 percent of the total contents of the fuel tanks (3,600 tonnes) with completion of pumping from tank no. 6 starboard during the weekend, the remaining fuel in the engine room service and settling tanks will be removed (total amount of around 400 tonnes).”
At the same time 128 containers had also been removed from the ship by Friday afternoon, having been discharged by the crane barge BIGFOOT 1 onto the shuttle vessel BOA BARGE 21, after which the boxes were taken to Portland.
It is estimated that the clearance of the ship’s deck containers will take up to four weeks.